Derrel
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JonA_CT said:Finished the first roll of film this week -- gonna try to get it to the lab tomorrow, and then we will see!
Hope for still-serviceable light seals in the camera....the thing is old enough that the seals might not still be light-tight. There's really nothing wrong with the three lenses you got with this kit--all three are perfectly capable lenses for a 35mm film kit. Speaking of 35mm, the 35mm focal length is one of my favorites for general walk-about use, as well as for environmental portraiture.
The thing about the 35mm lens length is that it may be used from close-in, to get a bit of deliberate foreshortening of legs and arms and limbs--without also being "weird" in terms of how it makes things at the corners of the frame appear. On FF or film, a 35mm lens also covers roughly one foot left to right for every foot distant from the subject at social photography distances, so it's easy to mentally learn the lens's natural field of view.
The tele-zoom was a well-regarded lens when it was current,and it's the fixed maximum aperture f/3.8 model, so that is nice--to be free of concern that as the lens is zoomed that the effective aperture might be changed. When it was made, that Vivitar lens was coveted by many people!